#atari explorer

USA 1986

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USA 1990

USA 1986

USA 1986

USA 1990

Along with a cover feature playing up “work from home and be your own boss” and a type-in program reprising the original “Oregon Trail” (a version of which had appeared in Creative Computing twelve years before) under a different name, this issue included an editorial explaining why it had had to resort to the vagueness of a season in its cover date. The editorial had originally been a bit more sharp-tongued about the matter, though, and as it turned out “the entire staff” of the magazine got fired by Atari... Atari Explorer would return in 1991 under new management, blander than before, as the company itself slowly and quietly faded away. Dave Ahl would go on to other things outside the computer magazine business.

This programming-heavy issue was ready to be much more positive towards WordPerfect than the magazine had been a year and a half ago. Editor Betsy Staples had to memorialize her colleague from Creative Computing John J. Anderson, taking note of his Atari-boosting in that magazine and pointing out a trust fund had been established for his two young children.